March 24 – April 4, 2027 · St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Pete
New Works
Festival
Two weeks. Four companies. World premieres, readings, and immersive experiences staged across a walkable Gulf-coast city — built for the people who travel for new work.
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Coming from out of town
Fly in. Stay cheap.
Walk to everything.
Official festival hotel
Mint Hotel
Official festival hotel. Festival guests receive 30% off — book with the link below.
Fly into
Tampa International Airport (TPA)
About 30 minutes by car from downtown St. Petersburg. The most convenient airport for national and international flights.
Once you're here
Downtown St. Pete is compact and walkable; most festival venues are within a 10-minute drive of each other.
Lineup
Programming
announced soon
The festival runs March 24 – April 4, 2027 in St. Petersburg. Titles, dates, and tickets are still being locked with our partner companies. The full lineup and on-sale dates are announced here soon.
The details
Two weeks.
A whole city.
The inaugural St. Pete New Works Festival arrives in Spring 2027, running March 24 – April 4, 2027 across The Studio, freeFall Theatre, The Off-Central, and Story Keepers' site-specific spaces — all within a few minutes of downtown.
We're building it for a national audience: a festival pass that fits a long weekend, a hotel partner steps from the venues, and a city that's warm in March while most of the country isn't.
Ticket on-sales, workshop applications, and the full schedule announcement all land on this page first.
The mark
Every name
in the circle
The festival identity is a wave of type radiating outward. Each show carries its own ring of artists; the festival mark carries them all — 10 writers, directors, and makers and counting.
Meet the workHelp us plant
the seeds of
new work
The festival is a living laboratory, and every lab needs resources. Your donation doesn't just buy a ticket — it funds the development process. It pays for scripts to be printed, for local actors to spend hours in rehearsal rooms, and for playwrights to travel to St. Pete to hear their words out loud for the first time.
By donating today, you are providing the seed money that ensures our 2027 festival is as bold and inclusive as our city deserves.
Fund the festivalWhat the partners say
“The St. Pete New Works Festival is a necessity for the growth of the arts here in St. Pete. We are thrilled to collaborate with freeFall, Story Keepers, and The Studio to bring this festival to life and bring new stories to our community.”
Alan Mohney Jr.
Managing Director, The Off-Central Players
“This festival is about proving that the ‘City of the Arts’ isn’t just a tagline — it’s a commitment to the messy, beautiful process of creation. We aren’t trying to build one singular organization to replace what’s been lost nationally; we are showing that through collaboration, St. Pete is a collective sanctuary where artists can take risks and find their voice.”
Avery Anderson
Founder, Story Keepers & Festival Organizer
“At The Studio, our mission has always been to say ‘Yes’ to the artist. By partnering with our peers for this festival, we are amplifying that ‘Yes’ and ensuring that St. Petersburg remains a beacon for diversity, innovation, and the next generation of great American stories.”
Erica Sutherlin
Artistic Executive Director, The Studio
“We are thrilled to participate in this project which creates an open format for organizations to show work that simply needs to be new. This allows us to bring one of our major season projects into the festival rather than needing to bow out of a project with more demanding thematic constraints. It should be a fun and varied mix of events.”
Eric Davis
Artistic Director, freeFall Theatre
The producing companies
A St. Petersburg company known for inventive, design-forward productions and an appetite for ambitious new work.
Visit freeFall Theatre →A cross-disciplinary home for artists of every medium, built on a mission of saying “Yes” to the artist.
Visit The Studio →A scrappy, actor-driven company championing contemporary plays and local voices.
Visit The Off-Central Players →
Site-specific, human-centric storytelling rooted in queer creativity and community imagination.
Visit Story Keepers →Partner
with us
The St. Pete New Works Festival is made possible through the support of community-minded organizations and individuals. If you're interested in sponsoring our 2027 inaugural season and being part of this historic collaboration, we want to hear from you.
Get the sponsorship kit — email Avery Anderson.
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